Speakers
Rahul Bhattacharyya
Specialist Society
Participation in high-level sport among athletes over 40 years has increased markedly, creating new challenges for orthopaedic surgeons. Veteran athletes frequently present with injuries that combine acute trauma with early degenerative joint change. Management requires careful balance between maintaining sporting activity and protecting long-term joint health.
This BOSTAA/BASK session will explore contemporary management of common sporting knee injuries in veteran athletes through focused talks and interactive case-based discussion highlighting practical decision-making in challenging clinical scenarios.
The aim is to provide evidence-based guidance to help surgeons optimise outcomes while enabling veteran athletes to remain active.
Chair: Mr Rhidian Thomas and Prof Rahul Bhattacharyya
Agenda
14:30-14:32- Introduction
14:32-14:45: Sanjeev Anand, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Meniscus in an active older person: Preserve, Repair or Resect?
14:45-14:58: Prof Chinmaye Gupte, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Patellofemoral Joint in the Veteran Athlete
14:58-15:11: Paul Jermin, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Cartilage Lesions: Can We Still Restore, or Should We Contain?
15:11 – 15:24: Neil Jain, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
ACL Injury in the Veteran Athlete: Operate or Rehabilitate?
15:24-15:37: Sam Yassen, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Alignment Matters: Osteotomy in the Active Ageing Knee
15:37-15:50: Abtin Alvand, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
The “Too Young for Arthroplasty” Dilemma
15:50:16:00 : Q&A
Professor Rahul Bhattacharyya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at Ross
Hall Hospital, Glasgow. His NHS base is at NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals. He is Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (knee surgery biomechanics research). He is also an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and University of Glasgow. He is member of the executive committee of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).
His clinical interests are focused entirely around surgery of the knee with a special interest in sports knee injuries with experience in treating elite level athletes. This includes meniscal repair and meniscal allograft transplantation, ligament (cruciate and collateral) repair and reconstruction, cartilage repair and knee cap (patella) stabilisation surgery. He also treats patients with arthritis with a focus on knee joint preservation wherever possible.
Prof Bhattacharyya graduated with Honours in medicine and surgery from the University of Sheffield in 2009. He completed specialist training in orthopaedics in the West of Scotland, Glasgow. He then undertook a further sub-specialty fellowship in sports knee surgery with the internationally renowned Mr Tim Spalding and Mr Pete Thompson at Coventry, UK. Here he was trained in all aspects of modern, cutting edge sports knee surgery and is one of the few surgeons in Scotland trained to treat meniscal deficiency with Meniscal Allograft Transplantation. He has been awarded the prestigious British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) travelling fellowship in 2023. With this award, he has visited international centres of excellence in sports knee surgery in London Ontario, Canada and Stanford University, USA. This has enabled him to gain further insight into the latest cutting edge techniques used in knee surgery in world leading centres and being able to offer this to his patients in the UK.
Prof Bhattacharyya pioneered the use of Cognitive Task Analysis in knee and trauma surgery which led to multiple academic publications and presentations. He has been nominated by the Royal College of Surgeons, England, for innovation in surgical education and for the president’s medal in teaching innovation by Imperial College London for his work in this field. He also has a keen interest in biomechanics research investigating innovations in surgical techniques in sports knee surgery, research in meniscal allograft transplantation and clinical research ensuring patient outcomes are evaluated to deliver the highest standards of care.
Mr Anand is a Consultant knee surgeon with a tertiary referral practice at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
He is a founder member and Executive Director of the International Society for Knowledge for Surgeons on Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty (ISKSAA), and serves as Executive Editor of the Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery. He is currently Academic Secretary for BOSTAA, and an Executive Member of the British Patellofemoral Society (BPFS). He is immediate Past-President of BIOS.
He has played a leading role in developing national guidelines for ACL reconstruction and has contributed to guidance on patellofemoral disorders and arthroscopic meniscal surgery.